On Waster Grounds Festival in Berlin
On Friday 6 December Julian Hetzel will be part of the panel “Erasing Violences & Performative Remembrance” at festival ON WASTED GROUNDS, organised by publishing house Diaphanes at their project space in Berlin (DE). In the panel we are joined by visual artist Ixmukané Aguilar and and Professor for Theater- und Performance Studies Dorota Sajewska.
ABOUT ON WASTED GROUNDS:
Our present is shaped by areas ravaged by war and violence, the ruins of hegemonic world orders, social and ecological wastelands, deserts produced by exploitation and overproduction. But not only materially, also intellectually, our world seems to be standing on eroded terrains and squandered resources: not only our earthly habitats are discarded, lost, devastated in the face of climate change and species extinction. ‘Wasted Grounds’ describe also areas of mental overuse and exhaustion, those unfulfilled promises and failed utopias in whose pale light the destruction of natural and social habitats appears as the unconscious flip side of our thoughts and actions.
What are the fundaments from which we can develop new perspectives in the face of permanent crisis, failed deadlines that we allow to pass before our very eyes, the critical points that are already behind us? How can we imagine and represent differently, what creative means exist in the deep shadow of catastrophe? What can we build on, trapped between historical chasms and anxiety about the future?
On Wasted Grounds is an ongoing transdisciplinary research and exhibition project that consistently transcends topological and disciplinary boundaries, interweaving scientific and fictional narratives, interventions from art and research, architectural and technological visions, critical essays and speculative image series. This magazine in progress forms a global arrangement of locally gained perspectives; in its nine chapters, the most diverse experiences and positions are juxtaposed between divergent semantic poles.
PARTICIPANTS:
Aàdesokan, Ixmukané Aguilar, Ghayath Almadhoun, Mieke Bal, Stephen Barber, Priya Basil, Nikita Dhawan, Ibou Diop, Alexander García Düttmann, Logan February, Christian Filips, Liliana Gómez, Julian Hetzel, Inkasso, Sandra Jasper, Eckardt Lindner, Federico Luisetti, Tom McCarthy, Mark Mushiva, Silvia Noronha, I.V. Nuss, Kinga Ötvös, Lucas Pohl, Dorota Sajewska, Jacob Stoy, Daniel Tyradellis, Ines Weizman, Arkadi Zaides and others.
The festival is curated by Marie Glassl
WHEN: Fri 6 – Sun 8 Dec
WHERE: Espace Diaphanes Berlin, Dresdener Strasse 118, 10999 Berlin
